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Despite their own reporting from earlier in the week explaining how Border Patrol was so swamped and at a breaking point that they had to detain dozens of illegal immigrants in an area under an overpass, Wednesday’s CBS Evening News decried the administration’s “remain in Mexico” program for those seeking asylum.
The report was a part of the program’s “Eye on America” segment and anchor Jeff Glor said it was meant to take a look at “how a shift in U.S. asylum policy is sending hundreds back across the border into legal limbo.”
CBS correspondent Omar Villafranca was in Tijuana, Mexico and spoke with two young men who were “who are legally seeking asylum in the United States have been sent back to remain in Mexico to await their hearing.”
Villafranca explained how one of the men he spoke with, who had his name changed for the report at the request of his lawyer, “told us back in Honduras, he was the target of local gangs. He showed us police reports alleging they were under threat.”
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